Episode 2 follows one of precision watchmaking’s most difficult ideas, from Huygens’ pendulum clocks to F.P. Journe’s landmark Chronomètre à Résonance.
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The F.P. Journe Chronomètre à Résonance Souscription No. 007 became a record-setting independent watch at Phillips New York, but its real importance lies in the audacity of making resonance work on the wrist.
Luxury watch brands are reshaping retail through private salons, cafés, restaurants, lounges and curated journeys that turn collecting into a more social and immersive experience.
A rare pre-production F.P. Journe Chronomètre à Résonance 022/99R, kept by one owner since 1999, will be offered at Phillips in Geneva with an estimate of CHF 500,000 to CHF 1,000,000.
The F.P.Journe Chronomètre À Résonance Souscription No.7 sold for $13,922,000 at Phillips in New York, placing a modern independent watch in the long scientific lineage of Huygens, Janvier and Breguet.
François-Paul Journe built his reputation on chronometry, authorship and stubborn independence, turning a restoration bench education into one of watchmaking’s most admired modern maisons.
Geneva’s May watch auctions are part market barometer, part collecting salon and part theatre, with rare watches changing hands in five-star hotels by the lake.
Akrivia, F.P. Journe, Roger Smith, Urban Jürgensen and Naissance d’Une Montre 1 give Phillips’ May Geneva sale a distinctly independent focus.
Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo closed its Geneva Watch Auction XXIII at CHF 74,846,995, led by a Patek Philippe world timer, major F.P. Journe results and a remarkable showing for independents and historic pocket watches.
Sotheby’s Global Chairman of Watches has handled some of the most important timepieces to appear at auction, from a record Cartier Crash to an Omani Daytona and a monumental Audemars Piguet pocket watch.
The RT series Resonance (RT stands for Resonance Trois) is the most bizarrely distinct in all his five series so…